Foreword -- Introduction -- Personality, Image and Perception: Patterns and Problems of Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- I. Keeping the Balance - Britain and Europe in the 19th Century. Systemic and Domestic Factors -- Great Britain and the Continental Revolutions of 1848 -- The Place of Germany in Salisbury's Foreign Policy, 1878-1902 -- Defending the Empire: Lord Salisbury and Europe, 1886-1892 -- II. Personality and Foreign Policy in the Age of Imperialism - An Anglo-German Comparison -- The Kaiser and England -- The Monarch's Concept of Foreign Policy: Victoria and Edward VII -- The Crisis of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1916-17 -- III. Perceptions and Designs in Anglo-German Relations -- Gustav Stresemann's Concept of International Relations -- Britain and Germany, 1937-1939: A Context for British Reactions to the German Resistance -- Willy Brandt's "Neue Ostpolitik": British Perceptions and Positions, 1969-1975 -- IV. Retreat from the World Stage: Contradictions and Tensions in British Postwar Foreign Policy -- Between Europe and Empire: Britain's Changing Role in World Politics since 1945 -- The End of Empire and British Political Culture -- The British-American "Special Relationship" and Secret Intelligence since the Second World War -- V. Great Britain and Europe since the End of the Second World War -- Britain and Europe after 1945 -- Conservative Governments and the Challenge of European Integration, 1984-1997 -- Labour, New Labour, and European Integration, 1945-1999 -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors.